MRI quantifies neuromuscular disease progression
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Several studies provide compelling support for the use of MRI as a sensitive non-invasive method to assess skeletal muscle disease progression in various neuromuscular diseases, including Duchenne muscular dystrophy1,2 and limb girdle muscular dystrophy type 2I.3 In The Lancet Neurology, Jasper Morrow and colleagues4 now report the sensitivity of MRI to track disease progression in 20 patients with Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease 1A and 20 patients with inclusion body myositis.
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